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Marc Balcells
Director, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING)2012 March 22 RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade
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Isaac Newton Group of Isaac Newton Group of TelescopesTelescopes ING operates three telescopes for
UK, NL, ES
Oldest, largest ORM user institution
At ORM since 1982
~40 staff, 25 years operating telescopes
Leading scientific production
Currently planning for next 10 years
WHT 4.2m
INT 2.5m
JKT 1.0m (not offered)
2011-08-31 2IoA Cambridge
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Instrumentation
WHT developed as versatile telescope with easyswitching between focal stations
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http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/observing/instruments.html
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Program of Visiting Program of Visiting InstrumentsInstrumentsSuccessful program of easy
deployment of private instruments
SAURON PNS PlanetPol ExPo INTEGRAL ULTRACAM FastCam GHaFaS SPIFS
•Future• PAUCam
• AOLI Lucky Imager2012 March 224RIA Workshop - Science with ORM and CAHA in the next decade
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Test-bed for E-ELT Test-bed for E-ELT technologiestechnologies
• CANARY system for multi-object adaptive optics (MOAO) for EAGLE (E-ELT)
• Durham, UKATC, Paris-LESIA, Marseille, ING
• Phase A (NGS) successful
• Now preparing Phase B, 4 LGS, open loop.
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TrainingTraining ING resident student programme
4 PhD students spend 1 yr at ING Manage and support all INT observations Many PhD students learn to be astronomers at
ING2012-13 student selection open
Deadline 2012 April 6 http://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/science/studentship.html
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Collaboration with GTCCollaboration with GTC An ING-GTC alliance at ORM: the T&Inet
MoU ING-GTC Telescope and Instrumentation Network
Signed 2011
Collaboration projects OSIRIS cryostat (2011 Jan – June)
Alignment of GTC primary mirror segments(ongoing)
Potential for growth
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WHT usage, oversubscriptionWHT usage, oversubscription
Spain oversubscr: 2.5-3 Remains high after
accession to ESO
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Spain: increasing demand
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High-impact scientific High-impact scientific productivityproductivity
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Forthcoming paper:
Benn & Jiménez-Luján, Scientific impact of large telescopes 1991-2010, in prep.
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Plans for next decadePlans for next decade
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Thinking ING’s futureThinking ING’s future ING Board
ING SAC
ING Manag.
STFC-NWO-IAC-GTC working group
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4m in 10m era4m in 10m era Do what you do better than the 10m
Wide field astronomy
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Strategic planning 2013-2022Strategic planning 2013-2022http://www.ing.iac.es/about-ING/strategy/
2013-20161. Maintain current model of general
purpose telescope
2. Build, commission WEAVE
2017-2022 WEAVE surveys
Retain some access to other instruments?
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2013-20162013-2016
General-purpose telescope model Introduce long-term programmes
Upgrade survey instruments
Maintain Students, technology programmes, visitor
instruments Future visitor instruments PAUCam (2013);
AOLI (2014)
Build, commission WEAVE Talk Friday by Gavin Dalton, WEAVE PI
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Long-term programmesLong-term programmes
Expect increase telescope productivity
ONLY IF demmanded by the community
Requires changes in TAC processes Common UK, NL, ES TAC for long
programmes
Upgrade ‘survey’ instruments AF2/WYFFOS
4k Red+CCD. Throughput/operational issues
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Why continue 2013-2016Why continue 2013-2016
1. Northern sky access
2. Complementarity to GTC
For Spain, WHT is still ‘the’ general purpose telescope
Science All kinds! You need to tell us
Multi-wavelength coverage of important missions Gaia; Herschel; LOFAR; UKIDSS; …
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2017-2022 Surveys in the 2017-2022 Surveys in the WEAVE epochWEAVE epoch Scott Trager’s talk, this Friday
50%? 70%? 100%? time to WEAVE surveys?
Spain: scientific complementarity WHT – GTC Classical : WHT – imaging, GTC – Spectroscopy??
Alternative: Spectroscopy, WHT: V=17=20 // GTC: V=20-23
WHT/WEAVE combined with GTC/MEGARA
Powerful opportunities for Spanish astronomy
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Summary: we’d like your Summary: we’d like your needs/plans forneeds/plans for 2013-2016
Would you use WHT long-term programmes Would you tolerate long-term programmes
Instrument upgrade requests
Coordination with other facilities
ING role in training astronomers.
2017-2022 Interest in retaining (some) current instruments
Interest in retaining INT Cost impact!
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THANKTHANKSS
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